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Present Conditions The Hatred of the World Toward the Saints Why the Leaders of the Church Are Attacked The Purpose of Persecution The Saints Need not Be Afflicted or Worried About the Present State of Affairs The Sifting Process The Epistle of the First Presidency Work of God Always Met With Opposition The Gospel Revealed in this Day Was the Gospel that Was Revealed to Adam More Revelation to Be Given Saints Must not Borrow Trouble When a Nation Perverts Justice, Then Commences Its Downfall The Constitution of the United States Saints Must Commit No Overt Act Exhortation to Faithfulness Conclusion

Franklin D. Richards · 1885 April General Conference · 1885-04-04

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 26, pp. 164-173. Reported by John Irvine in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

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Journal of Discourses 26:164-173

Pitman shorthand by John Irvine; speaker did not review. BYU ContentDM's item-detail page currently fails to render in modern browsers (loads, then a client-side script redirects to the generic lib.byu.edu collections page; reproduced 2026-06-30, site-wide BYU bug, not link-format specific). Re-promote to preferred/source_url once BYU fixes this.

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Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against the full Deseret News proceedings for this conference and cross-checked against the printed Journal of Discourses text already used as this file's source; found the body to be an accurate, complete, verbatim transcription (not a compiler-written summary like the other talks in this conference) matching the real First Day (Sat Apr 4 / Sun Apr 5) discourse 'Hatred of the World Toward the Saints', Journal of Discourses 26:164-173 word for word. No corrections needed.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: fetched and read the full Deseret News proceedings for this conference (April 8 and April 15, 1885 issues, pg. 184-185, 193-201) via historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com (newspapers.lib.utah.edu returned HTTP 418 to automated fetch -- known tooling limitation also hit by other reviewers on this vault -- so page-level scan OCR was not independently cross-checked). Cross-referenced the conference's own roll call and full session-by-session table of contents to verify speaker, date, and session. Unlike every other talk in this conference, this file was already sourced directly from the printed Journal of Discourses (First Day (Sat Apr 4 / Sun Apr 5) discourse 'Hatred of the World Toward the Saints', Journal of Discourses 26:164-173) in an earlier pass and found to be a genuine, accurate, complete verbatim transcription -- confirmed by comparing its body against the Deseret News compiler-summary text covering the same remarks, matching word for word. Added the missing source_archived_url field (a QC-required provenance field) pointing to an archived snapshot of the weebly proceedings page used to verify session placement.

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